Innocence.

8vo. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1957. 8vo, 172 pp. Original publisher's stiff green wrappers. A near fine copy with sharp corners and clean pages; light spotting to top text block edge. § Number 33 in the Traveller's Companion series, with "Francs 1.200", and "Francs 900" blacked out on lower cover. Iris Owens wrote five erotic novels in three years for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press under the pseudonym of Harriet Daimler. (“Daimler struggles against her impossible tendency to write more explicitly than the courts will tolerate,” Girodias wrote approvingly in the Olympia catalogue of 1957.) Owens later gave her pseudonym to the protagonist of the first of two books published under her own name. A dark and intriguing figure - no feminist but a survivor - her work has been reappraised since the reissue in 2010 of her novel "After Claude". Her papers are now at Columbia University. (Inventory #: 126222)